Tag: TruckersEdge

Business
TruckersEdge load board updated
The new TruckersEdge incorporates the latest search technologies used by the leading web browsers, with auto-populated fields personalized to fit any user’s needs — and more updates.
April 6, 2018
Business
DAT’s new TruckersEdge Pro now shows rate averages paid to owner-operators in recent weeks
Loadboard DAT Solutions on Friday announced the availability of TruckersEdge Pro, an updated version of its loadboard that allows owner-operators to see the rate averages in specified lanes paid by brokers over the past 15 days.
July 14, 2017
DAT TruckersEdge on a laptop
Business
Getloaded load board consolidated in DAT network
DAT says the move expands its load-board offerings to include a greater diversity of equipment types and loads from specialized brokers.
February 6, 2017
DAT TruckersEdge on a laptop
Business
DAT’s premium Power load board updated
DAT Solutions today announced the availability of its updated, web-based DAT Power load board, delivering results faster, reducing clicks and keystrokes, and containing unique teamwork features.
April 10, 2015
McCollister noted that dynamic sliders to refine search results “are available to users… Every time you move a slider the results are updated immediately … as fast as data travels across the Internet.” Broker reviews have likewise been brought into results. “Carriers can receive review score for a broker or shipper before picking up the phone – they can also rate their own network of their favorite brokers or shippers,” he added.
Business
On-demand load matching: Where it’s on the way
Tech startups aimed at long-haul TL need critical mass of freight, carrier capacity and more to compete with systems entrenched in the freight market, themselves adopting some Uber-like functionality.
April 3, 2015
Trucker Path trip planner
Business
Getting the best rates: Two approaches
Owner-operators Rico Muhammad and Chad Boblett share Tortoise-and-Hare approaches to using data toward commanding better rates.
October 3, 2014
tortoise and hare
Channel 19
Rates, lanes on Labor Day weekend and beyond: A new resource
Where’d you load Friday? As owner-operator Chad Boblett of the Rate Per Mile Masters Facebook group and Rates and Lanes podcast notes, the answer probably had a lot to do with the rate you were able to negotiate for the long weekend.
August 30, 2014
DAT 8-23-14 line haul rates
Business
Load by phone: How operators are using online tools
Owner-operators’ use of online load services varies from occasional use to test the waters in an unfamiliar area to use as a primary freight resource.
April 15, 2013
Owner-operator Cody Blankenship is among the 14 percent of owner-operators who view load boards primarily as avenues toward working more directly with trusted brokers and valuable shipper customers. Today, Blankenship keeps the reefer trailer behind his 2003 Kenworth W900B loaded via relationships he’s developed with hard-won experience, using boards only sparingly.
Channel 19
Loads on your phone: More board, broker apps
Details of three more smartphone apps — CHRW Trucks, BulkLoadsNow, and Fikes’ Logistics’ custom app — for finding freight in your pocket.
March 4, 2013
Click through this screenshot to download the BulkLoadsNow app for Android phones (you’ll need an account with the board for it to be of any utility, though you can sign up within the app); for the iPhone version, search “BulkLoadsNow” in the App Store.
Channel 19
Freight on your smartphone: TransCore app on the way
Coming in just a couple weeks is the My DAT Truck Stop app (pictured) from freight matching service provider TransCore, operator of the oldest load-board service out there in the DAT boards. My DAT will be initially released for Android phones, providing drivers and owner-operators up to 25 nearby loads per search from Transcore’s DAT network, […]
April 26, 2011
Dat Home
Partners in Business
PIB TIP:  MANAGE COST OF TIME TO FUEL. The typical
PIB TIP:  MANAGE COST OF TIME TO FUEL. The typical owner-operator carries 200 gallons of fuel or more, but buys only 100 gallons at a time and takes about 45 minutes per stop to fuel. Often it saves time to put 175 gallons in the tanks instead of continually topping off with 100 gallons or […]
May 4, 2010
Partners in Business
PIB TIP:  GET THE MOST POSSIBLE MILES. Over a week
PIB TIP:  GET THE MOST POSSIBLE MILES. Over a weekend, try to make the most of your time. Match your miles with the time you have available to drive. Plan out Friday morning what you will do for the next three days. The Partners in Business program is produced by Overdrive and the consultants at […]
April 27, 2010
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